diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 739a09d..b761d87 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -108,5 +108,24 @@ Leibnitz. _Explication de l’arithmétique binaire_ [Godefroy-Guillaume Leibnitz. _Explication de l’arithmétique binaire, qui se sert des seuls caractères O et I avec des remarques sur son utilité et sur ce qu’elle donne le sens des anciennes figures chinoises de Fohy_. Mémoires de mathématique et de physique de l’Académie royale des sciences, Académie royale des sciences, 1703.](img/Leibniz_ArithmetiqueBinaire.pdf) +---- + +## When Computers Where Humans + + + +---- + +![](/img/reckoners.png) + +[link to book](http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Reckoners.html#TOC) + +---- + +Stibitz, George - "Relay Computers" + +> By “calculator” or “calculating machine” we shall mean a device . . capable of accepting two numbers A and B, and of forming some or any of thecombinations A + B,A - B,A x B,A/B.By “computer” we shall mean a machine capable of carrying out automatically a succession of oper- ations of this kind and of storing the necessary intermediate results . . . . Human agents will be referred to as “operators” to distinguish them from “computers” (machines). + +-- Stibitz, George. February, 1945. “Relay Computers.” National Defense Research Committee, Applied Mathematics Panel, AMP Report 171.1R. via Ceruzzi, Paul E. “When Computers Were Human.” Annals of the History of Computing 13, no. 3 (July 1991): 237–44. doi:10.1109/MAHC.1991.10025.